Dual-boot install problem

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 03:29:49PM -0500, William O'Higgins wrote:
> I was just about to install Debian on a new computer with XP on it and I
> got a cfdisk error.  The drive is a 160Gb with three partitions - two
> with NTFS and one blank.  The install routine offers to flatten my
> partition info, but that won't do.  Is there a reason that neither the
> Debian install disk nor a new Knoppix disk can run cfdisk on a drive
> that should be perfectly rational?  Thanks.

What cfdisk command do you run and what result does it give?

I wonder if the drive is using dynamic partition table instead of a
normal partition table.  That is an option in XP.

cfdisk doesn't do those as far as I know, although it is not normal for
that to be used on the first HD.

Lennart Sorensen
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